§ 33-13-1 Notice of devise or bequest to corporation or association
§ 33-13-2 Order for conversion of personalty into cash and distribution
§ 33-13-3 Restrictions on power of heir or devisee to incumber or alien realty
§ 33-13-4 Rights of creditors and heirs where no administration granted
§ 33-13-5 Payment of legacy on giving of indemnity bond
§ 33-13-6 Filing of statement listing legatees – Notice
§ 33-13-7 Approval of statement listing legatees – Order to pay legacies
§ 33-13-8 Determination of questions as to legacies
§ 33-13-8.1 Distributions in kind in satisfaction of pecuniary bequests
§ 33-13-9 Action for recovery of legacy – Action to preserve lien or charge upon real estate
§ 33-13-10 Action for an accounting brought by residuary legatee
§ 33-13-11 Time when order of distribution allowed
§ 33-13-12 Time when order of distribution required
§ 33-13-13 Payment of money into court for benefit of foreign legatee or distributee
§ 33-13-14 Liability of heirs, next of kin, devisees, and legatees for debts
§ 33-13-15 Action by creditor against heirs, next of kin, devisees, and legatees
§ 33-13-16 Liability of estate of heir, next of kin, devisee, or legatee for creditor’s claim
§ 33-13-17 Recovery of creditors’ claims – Apportionment of liability
§ 33-13-18 Failure of creditor to join all defendants – Addition of parties
§ 33-13-19 Liability to creditor for amount payable by insolvent heir, devisee or other – Restriction to amount received from estate
§ 33-13-20 Indemnity between heirs, next of kin, legatees, and devisees
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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 33-13 - Legacies, Devises, and Inheritance

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
  • Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • real estate: may be construed to include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and rights thereto and interests therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-10
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8